When you learn cooking from top culinary schools, you will have the skills to work in any restaurant. You can choose to work in the front of the house or the back of the house based upon where your true passion lies.

5. Become Your Own Boss

You can become your own boss by attending a culinary school. You may want to open your own restaurant, start a food truck, create a catering company or do anything else inside of the culinary world. First, you have to know what you’re doing and a school will tell you how to cook and how to manage.

6. Become A Celebrity Chef

Want to be the next Gordon Ramsay or Rachael Ray? It all starts with attending culinary school so you can understand all of the basics. Then you have to work your way up to that status by entering culinary competitions and stepping outside of the ordinary.

7. Earn A Great Salary

When you choose the best cooking schools in the country, you have access to the better (and higher paying) jobs in the area.Many of the better restaurants and resorts recruit out of the cooking schools and this gives you a better chance of working for these places. These places also pay higher than your average restaurant, giving you the opportunity to earn a great salary.

There are many reasons to go to culinary school and it’s all going to come down to two: is it for the arts or for the profession?You will have to decide which based upon your own goals in life.

For Form 4 or Form 5 students, we always encourage you to check the entry requirements of the courses you wish to study so that you will have a better idea on which subjects you should work harder.

For students who do not meet the minimum entry requirements, always feel free to seek for advices. There are always pathways, just depends on how much you are willing to work on it.

Case study: Many found out they cannot meet admission requirements. What now?

Suggestions: You may consider retaking certain subjects in your SPM examination or equivalent in your high school graduation exam. You can also choose other related certificate or diploma courses and further your study in a specific degree course.

3) Affordability – Can I afford the tuition fee?
There is huge difference among various courses and majors. You may need to re-assess your financial ability before taking up the course.

Case study: I would like to study in a private college or university but I cannot afford it. What do I do?

Suggestion: Students coming from less fortunate families need not worry as you may consider applying for different study loans or scholarships such as PTPTN loans. Bumiputras may consider MARA study loans. EPF also allows account holders to withdraw portion of their saving to pay for their children’s tuition.

4) Job Prospects – What work am I going to do after graduation?
What kind of work can I do after graduation? What are the job prospects? How much is the entry-level salary? Are there good prospects?

Case study: There is no harm in understanding your job prospects and work salary for what you will be doing. Very often, the job description, working hours, and working environment are ignored. Entry-level salary cannot be the only criterion in deciding your career. You may need to look at your chances for career growth and future development.

5) Challenges – What challenges might I face?
What kinds of challenges would you face in your work? Can I handle them?

Case study: “I want to save lives and I want to be a doctor.”

Suggestion: Many choose the major because likely they are passionate and inspired about it. But few realize that it comes with all kinds of challenges. For instance, you want to be a doctor but you are scared of blood. Can you work continuously for more than 36 hours without sleep? Consider the difficulties you may face at work. If you are still so determined to pursue this course, you might have found what you really love.

Factor 6: Future life – How you want your future life to be?

How do you picture yourself 10 years later? And how are you going to achieve that?

These are related to the course you select and the career after that. Do you prefer your future life to be stable or risky? How much free time will you have? Can your salary afford the lifestyle you wish to live in? Will you be happy with your job?

After knowing all the options you have and all the challenges of your future career, the final step is to get to know about yourself. What is your personality and who you really are? How well can you see yourself fitting into these selections? These are the questions that will find you true answer.